WASHINGTON Jahleel Addae Jersey , May 7 (Xinhua) -- Multiple allies of U.S. President Donald Trump went out in force on Sunday to promote a health care reform bill that they hope can make past the Senate despite a forecasted overhaul.
Capitol Hill and White House prominent members, including House Speaker Paul Ryan and Trump's Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, uniformly appeared on major cable news networks to defend the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which the Trump administration hoped would become its first legislative breakthrough and also fulfill its promise of "repeal and replace" Obamacare.
House Republicans pushed the AHCA bill past the House on Thursday in a 217-213 vote, which Trump hailed as a major victory in striking down Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act.
"This is a rescue mission Keenan Allen Jersey ," Ryan told ABC's This Week, adding the AHCA's goal is to lower the cost of insurance coverage and make sure that "everyone has access to affordable health care, especially and including people with pre-existing conditions."
Addressing criticism on the lack of transparency in drafting the AHCA, Ryan said they are "bogus attack from the left."
"The bill has been online for two months," Ryan said.
Ryan also cited a report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) saying reforms proposed by the AHCA was "in compliance with the Senate budget rules."
The bill has now been moved to the Senate, where GOP members are less eager to bow to pressure from the White House and have threatened to rewrite the bill.
When pressed on the issue by Fox News Sunday Melvin Ingram Jersey , Priebus said GOP Senators he spoke to, including Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, are "excited and ready to go to work and take the time necessary to look at the bill, make improvements where they need to be made."
"I think we want to let them do their work, let them work this out. They are all very mature. They all know what's going on," Priebus said.
The confidence was shared by Trump himself Joey Bosa Jersey , who tweeted Sunday "Republican Senators will not let the American people down! Obamacare premiums and deductibles are way up -- it was a lie and it is dead."
Tom Price, the surgeon turned Health Secretary, told CNN's State of the Union